Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://www.rbr.com/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.rbr.com/files.php?file=rss_logo1_757997737.jpg http://www.rbr.com/ http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1303.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:17:04 -0500 The presidential campaign season seems to have expanded to fill all of the time between Election Day completed and Election Day on the horizon. Prospective http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1276.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:07:30 -0500 No, the Senate Commerce Committee is not looking for snack food to take with it on its August recess. Mark Pryor (D-AR) believes that there http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1264.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:59:13 -0500 32 states and the District of Columbia have laws on the books which protect the right of a reporter to in turn protect the identity http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1220.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:14:00 -0500 That didn't take long. Ten FCC ownership studies had barely seen the light of day before Commissioners Michael Copps (D) and Jonathan Adelstein (D) began http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1213.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:05:00 -0500 Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Stevens (R-AK) is enduring another chapter in the ongoing investigation of his dealings with certain constituents back in Alaska. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1205.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:52:00 -0500 At the behest of powerful legislators John Dingell (D-MI) and Ed Markey (D-MA), the FCC is looking into how stakeholders can get out the word http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1171.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:56:20 -0500 The NAB calls royalties for airplay a performance tax. Howard Berman's (D-CA) Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property is taking up the topic http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1170.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:55:23 -0500 Mark Pryor (D-AR) has an item on Thursday's Senate Commerce Committee executive session which instructs the FCC to begin a rulemaking on blocking technologies. S. http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1145.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:35:20 -0500 The Townhall.com Presidential Straw Poll will be held 8/31/07 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. It's a collaboration of the Republican Party of Texas, Townhall.com http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1144.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:34:40 -0500 CNN and YouTube recently hosted a ground-breaking South Carolina debate featuring all eight Democratic presidential candidates taking questions directly from potential voters. A similar format http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1143.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:34:10 -0500 Mike Pence (R-IN) successfully managed to get a provision through the House of Representatives that would prevent the Department of Justice from pursuing criminal enforcement http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1102.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:33:49 -0500 The five FCC Commissioners, who just visited the House side of Capitol Hill yesterday, will get a break from the Senate at today's DTV hearing, http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1033.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:22:39 -0500 The broadcast community received a little bit of attention in yesterday's House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet session with the five FCC commissioners. The http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1067.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:44:16 -0500 As expected, everybody on the guest list for the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet will have something in common: an office on the 8th http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1091.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:22:47 -0500 The Supreme Court ruled last month that corporations and unions have wide discretion in the funding and airing of issue-oriented advertising. "Where the First Amendment http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/1011.html WASHINGTON BEAT Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:16:31 -0500 Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) received a swift up-or-down vote on S. 1780 yesterday afternoon in the Senate Commerce Committee. It's very narrow thrust is to restore http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/999.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:40:57 -0500 Craig Karmazin, not Mel, found himself on the defensive in a recent FCC proceeding for a most unusual set of chargers. According to Harmony Pet http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/987.html WASHINGTON BEAT Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:31:37 -0500 It may become cost-effective at some point to install a row of lockers in the green room of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/954.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:54:15 -0500 And you can bet that commercials aimed at children will be a big part of the all-day session at the Federal Trade Commission Conference Center http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/953.html WASHINGTON BEAT Wed, 18 Jul 2007 05:53:15 -0500 Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is not going after violent content with S. 1780, the "Protecting Children from Indecent Programming Act." He and his co-sponsors, Ted Stevens http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/948.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:29:40 -0500 It has been a very rough patch for Republicans on the Senate Commerce Committee, and each situation has been a snowflake, completely unrelated to any http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/938.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:18:39 -0500 The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council says that the new rules on transferring grandfathered clusters have not had the desired effect of increasing ownership among http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/937.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:17:01 -0500 Meanwhile, the decency watchdogs are helping to pump up the volume in this area. Parents Television Council's Tim Winter condemned the vote turning down Sam http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/936.html WASHINGTON BEAT Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:16:00 -0500 The attempt by Sam Brownback (R-KS) to attach measures to an FCC funding bill which would restore the FCC's right to punish fleeting expletives and http://www.rbr.com/media-news/washington-beat/920.html WASHINGTON BEAT Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:29:25 -0500 Steven Porter, who ran for Congress in 2004, was attempting to unseat Phil English (R-PA) in Pennsylvania's 3rd District. And it turns out he cheated.